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FCC Tells the Cable Industry
To Clean Up Content -- or Else

By

Anne Marie Squeo and

Joe FlintStaff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Updated Feb. 11, 2004 12:08 a.m. ET

Federal regulators to cable-television networks: Cut the smut or you could be next.

As Congress and the Federal Communications Commission ponder cracking down on the airing of indecent material on broadcast television, they are turning their attention to a heretofore sacrosanct medium: cable.